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Música Maximalista / Maximal Music 8: IV CIMESP 2001

PANaroma | SPAN 13216 | 2002

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1. Kent Olofsson: Alinea I-III (1997-2000) 22m20s span_13216-1.1 | 13071

Composer: Kent Olofsson

4. John Young: Liquid Sky (1998) 15m56s span_13216-1.4 | 13870

Composer: John Young

Commission: Ina-GRM

Premiere: March 20, 2000, Salle Olivier Messiaen — Maison de Radio France (Paris, France)

To Vendela and Isabella

This work is an exploration of the sound-image of rain. In many ways, I felt the process of composing this piece to be one of revealing and expanding the myriad patterns and colors within the sound, normally noticeable only with very concentrated listening. Since I work exclusively with my own environmental recordings, I tend to see the compositional process as opening out of the richness of the act of listening itself, supported by the imaginative associations for which it can be a catalyst. Like many environmental sources, the sound of rain is extremely varied and, at least in theory, covers a whole range of morphologies from the individual droplet to saturated granular noise. In collecting source material I made numerous field recordings in different locations focusing on the sound of rain falling on different objects — such as leaves, windows and puddles — since it was clear that the variety of sound colors inherent in rain is largely defined by the nature of the surface it falls upon.

In processing these sounds, I tried to think about these distinctions: the ‘granular’ aspect tending towards long-term development of texture, and the ‘droplets’ providing models for attack-resonance structures. But in continuing with this idea, my approach was not always subtle! In the studio I tried to expand the gestural rhythm by superimposing the dramatic amplitude envelopes of fireworks onto the dense textures of heavy rain. And, with the use of multiple grouped resonators, I was able to impose defined pitch structures onto the material, allowing slowly evolving inharmonic spectra to eventually have a central role in the piece. As a whole, Liquid Sky aims to convey the feeling of a larger-than-life immersion in rain, and an intensified view of a powerful environmental phenomenon.

 

Liquid Sky was realized in 1998 in the studios of the Groupe de recherches musicales (Paris, France) and of EMS (Stockholm, Sweden) and premiered on March 20, 2000 during the GRM’s Multiphonies concert series at Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris, France). Collection of sound sources and some initial processing was done at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). The work was commissioned by the Ina-GRM. Liquid Sky won Second Prize at 4th Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo (CIMESP ’01, Brazil) and was preselected in the 2000 Bourges International Competition for electroacoustic music. Special thanks to Daniel Teruggi.

5. Gilles Gobeil, Arturo Parra: Soledad (1998, 2000) 12m16s span_13216-1.5 | 13896

guitar, and tape

Listen

Premiere: May 15, 1998, Parr(A)cousmatique, 15e Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV), Cégep de Victoriaville (Victoriaville, Québec)

(Solitude) Solitude, whether imposed or voluntary, forces us to confront the light and dark sides of our lives. The most transient moods become gaping chasms into which I can easily fall. Alone, I can detect the sound of my blood as it travels through my veins. I follow (indeed, I am but) the whims of my solitary steps, my inner voices. Alone, I am the shadow of my solitude.

In this piece I wanted my guitar too to experience the meaning of solitude — I isolated each of its sounds to prevent them from singing together. Stripped almost completely of its harmonic capacities, its strings unplucked, the guitar relinquishes sovereignty over itself. And as for me: “cuando muera enterradme con mi guitarra bajo la arena” (should I die, bury me beneath the sand with my guitar) — Federico García Lorca.

Catherine Ego, Arturo Parra [English translation: Peter Feldstein]

Impuesta o voluntaria, la soledad nos confronta a las caras luminosas u ocultas de nuestras vidas. Los más fugaces estados de espíritu se densifican y se convierten en un abismo que me aspira. Allí, escucho incluso el ruido de mi sangre que viaja a través de mis venas. Sigo (siendo) el laberinto de mis pasos solitarios, de mis voces interiores. Me convierto en la sombra de mi soledad.

Quise en esta pieza que mi guitarra viviera una experiencia similar, aislar cada uno de sus sonidos e impedirle cantar. Completamente privada del ataque de las cuerdas punteadas, despojada casi totalmente de sus voces armónicas, la guitarra queda desnuda y desposeída de ella misma. En cuanto a mí, “cuando muera enterradme con mi guitarra bajo la arena” —Federico García Lorca.

Catherine Ego, Arturo Parra [Traducción al español: Arturo Parra]

6. Andre Bartetzki: Rondeaux trouvés (2000) 14m40s span_13216-1.6 | 13074

Composer: Andre Bartetzki

7. Gary Berger: Lichtempfindliche Erinnerungen (2000) 5m00s span_13216-1.7 | 13075

Composer: Gary Berger

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